The impacts of quality and productivity perceptions on the use of software process improvement innovations

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 543-553

  Green, Gina C ^a   Hevner, Alan R ^b   Collins, Rosann Webb ^b  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development productivity; Personal software process; Software process improvement (SPI) Innovations; Software quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY CONTROL;

DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTIVITY; PERSONAL SOFTWARE PROCESS; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT (SPI); SOFTWARE QUALITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 16344362698     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2004.10.004     Document Type: Article

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